pūtum

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Akkadian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *piʔat- (side, edge, front). Cognate with Arabic فِئَة (fiʔa, class, division) and Biblical Hebrew פֵּאָה (peʾɔ, edge, corner).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pūtum f (construct state pūt or pūti, plural pâtum or pūtātu) (from Old Akkadian on)

  1. forehead, front, brow
  2. facade
  3. (with ina) opposite, in front of

Usage notes

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The plural form pūtātu is found in Middle Assyrian and Middle Babylonian texts.

Alternative forms

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Cuneiform spellings
Logograms Phonetic

References

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  • “pūtu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
  • Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “pūtu(m) I”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag